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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Drug-Induced Erection
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 23:50:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 23:50:57 1986
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> In article <1019@sunybcs.UUCP>, colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> > > Complications were few and included four patients with sustained erections
> > > that required intervention.
> > 
> > I don't like the sound of "intervention!" Did they have to amputate?
> 
> 	Probably just aspirated the blood from the corpus cavernosum with
> a 50 CC syringe and #12 gauge needle, or possibly a trocar and cannula... :-)
> [It hurt to even _think_ about the above!]


	You are right.  It hurt to even think about the above.  Of course,
it wouldn't work, since it would just fill from the arterial side.
	Anyway, since Phentolamine (an alpha-adrenergic blocker) caused
the erection, a little shot of Norepinephrine (in a little tiny needle
in an almost inconsequential syringe) will constrict the arteries and
return the patient to flaccidity (incidentally pronounced FlakSIDity.
	Incidentally, as I wrote to the Colonel, a sympathethic discharge
causing natural release of Norepinephrine is what normally causes 
orgasm and the subsidence of erection.  This is just working with the
body's own chemistry, as it were.

	
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			      Craig Werner (MD/PhD '91)
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